Project record
1,500 pins for a Florida city — the lowest per-pin price in the collection
A municipal government ordered 1,500 pins at 1.5 inches. Volume moved the price further than any other variable in the archive.
Rockledge · FL · Space Coast
- Quantity
- 1,500 pins
- Size
- 1.5"
- Pin type
- Standard pins
The brief
Fifteen hundred pins for a Florida city — the largest corporate run in the collection, and the lowest price per pin anywhere in it.
How the design got made
- Beat 1
A municipal government buyer, not a company and not a team
- Beat 2
1,500 pins at 1.5 inches with a glitter finish
- Beat 3
Between 75 and 90 cents per pin — volume moves the number further than anything else
- Beat 4
Marked urgent rush on the purchase order
- Beat 5
Tariff terms discussed at length across the thread
The full account
A city buys like an association
Rockledge sits on Florida's Space Coast, in Brevard County. The order came from the city itself — not a department, not an event committee, the municipality.
Fifteen hundred pins at an inch and a half, with a glitter finish.
That quantity puts it in the same bracket as the largest sports orders here, and it produces the same effect on price: between 75 and 90 cents per pin, the lowest figure anywhere in this collection. The same pin at a hundred pieces costs nearly four times as much.
What volume actually does
The one-time tooling cost is the same whether you order 100 pins or 1,500. Spread across 100, it dominates the price. Spread across 1,500, it nearly disappears.
That's the whole mechanism, and it works identically for a city, a hockey association and a baseball club. A municipality ordering once for every department gets the same arithmetic a league gets ordering once for every team.
Marked urgent
The purchase order carried an urgent rush flag, and the tariff terms were worked through in detail across the thread — which is what happens when a deadline removes the slower freight option.
That tension shows up in almost every order here: time is the currency you spend to avoid the tariff. Order early and you have some to spend. Order late and you pay in cash instead.
Specification
| Team | City of Rockledge |
|---|---|
| Quantity | 1,500 |
| Size | 1.5" |
| Pin type | Standard pins |
| Finish options | glitter |
| Banner included | No |
| City | Rockledge |
| State | FL |
| County | Brevard County |
| Region | Space Coast |
The banner threshold
This order sat under the threshold, so no banner was included. At the time the line fell at 1,000 pins at 2.0 inches or larger: the size step cost $0.20 more per pin — $1.07 to $1.27 — and brought a free 3ft × 6ft banner plus 100 bonus gold-metal or blackout pins with it.
Worth checking before you commit to a quantity: the bigger pin is frequently the cheaper total order.
quoted for this order onlyAbout the prices on this page
Every figure here is taken from a real quote for a real order. That is the point of it — and also the reason it will not match what you are quoted.
- Quantity moves the price more than anything else
- Size and build are priced separately
- Turnaround changes the total
- Import tariffs apply and are disclosed on the quote
- These are historical
Questions this order answers
Glitter is a finish, so it applies to any pin type — standard, spinner or slider alike. It is mixed into the enamel of a chosen colour rather than applied on top, so it will not rub off.
It is specified per colour: one glitter colour, or several. Commonly it lands on a single accent area — the shape of a state, a star, a puck. A 1,500-pin association order ran one glitter colour across the whole run; another design used gold glitter only on the state-shaped element.
Sourced — Multiple 2025–26 orders
Tell us the in-hands date first, before anything else. Rush orders are possible and we've protected tight dates by escalating directly with the factory mid-production.
It costs more, and the fastest shipping is also the tariff-exposed shipping. Three weeks out means a $40 delivery charge plus a $75 rush fee.
Sourced — Brainerd AHA rush, November–December 2025
The pins are manufactured in China and are subject to US import tariffs. This is disclosed on every quote rather than surfacing at invoice.
Shipping method changes the exposure: the fastest air options are tariff-subject, while a roughly two-week freight-forwarding route avoids the tariff entirely. On a deadline with room in it, the slower route is usually the cheaper one.
Sourced — Shipping options quoted, October 2025
Two inches or larger is the working floor for tournament trading — smaller pins get passed over. Sizes run from 2 inches up to 6.
One little league's four orders across three years show the migration in practice: they started at 1.25 inches and moved to 2.0. Larger sizes also unlock the banner threshold, which is why the bigger pin often costs less in total.
Sourced — Sizing guidance across multiple orders; Northern Virginia little league, 2022–2026
No. Every figure in this library is what one team was quoted for one order, on the day they asked. It is published as a record, not as a price list.
Quantity and size move it most: the break runs about $0.20 per pin for every hundred pins, and the range here goes from a 1,500-pin corporate run at 1.25 inch to a 3 inch dangler with glitter. Pin type and finish are priced per pin on top of that — a spinner was $0.65 more per pin on one order, glitter is $0.10 per pin per glitter colour.
Timing is separate again. Six weeks ahead of your date carries no delivery or rush charge; four weeks adds a $40 delivery charge; three weeks adds $40 plus a $75 rush fee. The pins are manufactured in China and are subject to US import tariffs, disclosed on the quote rather than at invoice.
For a price that applies to your order, send your quantity, size and in-hands date and we will quote it.
Sourced — Quoted ladders and fee schedule across the AP Pope, Corona Avengers and Brainerd AHA threads, 2025–2026
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